Sessions

Interactive PDF and Forms in InDesign: Opportunities and Limits

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Fillable PDF forms let your readers enter information on desktop and mobile devices, regardless of whether they have an internet connection. In this session, you’ll learn how to use InDesign to build PDF forms and then how to refine those forms in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

You’ll learn:

  • Best practices for adding form fields in InDesign
  • Tricks for adding form fields in Adobe InDesign
  • Tasks you’ll need to perform in Adobe Acrobat
  • Tips and tricks to help you build flexible and robust forms
  • Dealing with changes to forms

Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign: Three Apps Working as One

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It’s the ultimate Adobe power-trio: InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator! But you’ll never be efficient with any one of them if you don’t understand how they work with the others!

Topics include:

  • How to properly set up Photoshop and Illustrator files for InDesign
  • Choosing between layers and artboards
  • CC Libraries: the secret back door conduit
  • When to link, copy, or embed artwork

Get Up to Speed with InDesign

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You’ve always meant to learn InDesign, but never quite got to it. Well, this is your chance! Jump in to this fun, fast-paced lesson, and get up to speed with the world’s best page-layout tool.

You’ll learn:

  • Fundamentals of frames
  • Understanding linking vs. threading
  • Time saving tricks and best practices
  • Exporting to PDF

10 Essential InDesign Productivity Tips and Tricks

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Let’s kick off Day 2 with a fast-paced, fun-filled tip-a-palooza to boost your productivity! We’ll zip through a ton of handy tips and tricks that every InDesign user needs to know. Plus, you’ll get primed to soak up all the InDesign goodness the rest of the conference will bring.

Topics include:

  • If you’re not customizing InDesign, you’re missing out
  • Essential shortcuts
  • Handy tricks
  • Interoperability Accelerators

 

Accessible Long Docs

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Creating accessible documents of any length can be a challenge. But when you’re working on long documents like books, reports, proposals, and other large publications, it’s critical that you build for accessibility from the start. Join internationally-renowned expert and art director Bevi Chagnon as she explains the best practices, and shows how to apply them.

Topics include:

  • Maximizing InDesign’s tools for long documents
  • Maintaining accessibility across a multi-chapter layout
  • When to keep the document in one INDD layout file, and when to use InDesign’s book utility
  • Strategies to manage the editorial – production workflow and keep everything accessible at the end

Essential Tools and Services for Accessibility

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When it comes to creating accessible documents, you can do most of what you need in InDesign and Acrobat… but a third-party tool or online resource can often help you work smarter and faster. Discover this art director and accessibility expert’s favorite add-ons and services that can upgrade your accessibility workflow from good to great.

Topics include:

  • Demos of 3rd party plug-ins for accessibility
  • Reviews of online tools and resources for accessible design

Accessible PDF Files: Key Acrobat Techniques

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In the two earlier sessions (Accessibility Fundamentals for InDesign and Next Steps in InDesign Accessibility), we explored how to set up Adobe InDesign documents to export accessible PDFs. But there’s only so much InDesign can do! In this session, we’ll see the critical next steps you need to take in Acrobat.

Topics include:

  • Key Checkpoints to Check Every time
  • Accessibility versus Usability
  • Testing with a Screen Reader without being an Expert
  • How to Use the Preflight Panel to Your Advantage
  • Testing Tools You Should be Using

Next Steps in InDesign Accessibility

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In the previous session (Accessibility Fundamentals for InDesign), we laid out the basics: what every InDesign user needs to know. Now, we’ll take the next step and explore some of the most important rules for building accessible PDF files.

Topics include:

  • Working with Accessible Colors
  • Best Practices for Accessible Tables
  • Accessible Hyperlinks
  • Exporting to PDF and Checking for Compliance

Accessibility Fundamentals for InDesign

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Ensuring that the PDF files you produce are accessible to everyone is not only a good idea, it’s the right thing to do! In this session, learn about what accessibility and “Section 508” means and how you can produce PDF documents that are accessible to all!

Remember, as George Kerscher of the DAISY Consortium said, “Access to information is a fundamental human right.”

This tutorial is split into five separate sessions. This session takes you through the steps of adding accessibility features to your InDesign files.

Topics include:

  • How to build an InDesign document the right way from the start
  • Controlling content order
  • Using features that already exist in InDesign

Break Through Your InDesign Production Bottlenecks

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This session is a 4-minute romp through WordsFlow, a workflow plugin for InDesign that solves your most common production problem: last-minute or ongoing changes by authors and editors using Word & Excel. WordsFlow works by providing live links to your Word & Excel documents, and performing its “magic merge” on link update, rather than losing all your work.

(DocsFlow provides the same function, but using online Google Docs documents & sheets.)

It will be followed by immediately by a live Q&A session.

This session brought to you by our partner, Em Software.